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P|? . W 1 5s?- v . 5J t. STATE HISTORY" And the Part Played in it By Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman. AS SEEN BY OUTSIDERS *'In ResltitlesH * Force of Character * lien Tillman is the Cireatest Man Knii<li ( Jirolimi Kvor I*ro?lurc?I rjid One of the Most Extraordinary Men Our Country Hus Produced." The following; is taken from the Washington Post, and may bQ said to be a fair outside estimate of Senator Tillman. Until Benjamin R. Tillmm rose to $mlte it, the State of South Carolina was dominated by an olVa-chy made of illustrious lamilles This regime was partly political and partly social. It was a pure government, frugal and honest. It was never guilty of extravagence, and neve, accused of graft. But the greatest families ruled, though the form was a representative commonweal h. In the Revolutionary period was Butler, Gadsden, Izard, Laurens. Motte, Pinckney and the Ruiledges, to say nothing of the heroes of Moultrie, Summer and Marion. Aftn the adoption of the ! deral consu utlon came the Butlers, the Calboutig, Gaillard, Hayne, Legare, P.-eat in, Pickens, McIJuffie, Barnwell, the Rhetts, Chestnut, Hamilton, Hammond, Hampton and others. There wuss cuiuiuui?ieu me uiouu 01 Scotch-Irish and the Hugeunt and perhaps it was the climate that made it so fervent and so Impetuous. It scorned Ik*. spoils of olli .<?, did this o'igarchy, or a glance will show that since the federal gov?:nmtnt was established but four citi-sens of South Carolina have been callel t<i the cabinet, and but two have sai upon the supreme bench. Th State furnished but cue minister c (England, Thos. Pinckney, appointBl l>y Washington, for four year, an 1 or.e to France, Charles C. Pincaney also appointed by Washington, serv'ng one year. No South Carolinian ever represented the United States at the the court of Austria or Germany or Italy. Under Washington our minister to Spain was that same Thomas Pinckney for two years, and later Jefferson appointed Charles C. Pinckney to Madrid, where he remained four years. Three South Carolinians rephesented the United States at the court of the czar?Henry Mlddleton, one year, appointed by Monroe; ^ Francis Pickens, two years, appointed by Buchanan, and Jainea L. Orr, one year, appointed by Grant . Thus it will be observed that thi-s obligarchy or aristocratic families was no vulgar association of political bosses intent on otlicial patronage. And therein was its vitality and its strength. Leas than 2.r? years ago Benjamin R. Tillman determined to destroy this aristocratic regime. It was a battle of the giants. Hampton and Butler were representatives of it Both were of illustrious families; uuiii iiad tongue ami Died lor tinSouth 011 many a stricken Held; botli were men of unblemished honor. There rallied on them the scions ol the old families, and they were intrenched in the traditions of centuries. Even Ben. Tillman's elder brother, who had displayed conspicuous abilities in congress, spoke and voted against the policies of Irs brother. But the "Craker" was aroused. II' had fouhd a leader as brave as Caesar, as devoted as Hampden, impetuous as Hotspur, resolute, earnest. honest, invinicble. After a tre mendous struggle Tillman was elect ed governor in 15?f?0, aid tw ? years thereafter he was reelected was an "architect of ruin, ' :n that eb held in contempt the trafiUons ot the past and smote the ol'garccj un:il it trem.ded and fell. Wane Hampton was the fir3* cl.isen >! the State, a hero and a sta.a-sman, the heir 3t a great name at^d ol an immense fortune. No more gallant soldier dre* sword in l>ig war, at the "lose of which ne could have said with u.o.c truth than dhl 'he crowned Valor is on the 1 \v ol Pavia, "All is I09I save honor " Hut wi:V?u* hesitation th" new champion of popular government stripped Wade Hampton of his tog. and gave it to another. Only a lit tie while and he defeated M. C. Hut ler for tlie Senate, in which lie toot his seat in 1S9">. Nobody who witnessed the seem when Tillmnn delivered his nit'drs speech in the *?r>?te will eve*- ?">igc it. His fellows appeared to b? awe< and certainly nothing Ilk > tt eve before transpired in that the it re. I recalled the p*f?ence of thi rud C?au! in the Roman senate as ro.-ird ed in ancient story. Tillman wr. fierce in his denunciation of the thoi Democratic president and se3-etar of the treasury. Nor was he com en with that. Ho assailed everythni political then in existence, and talk ed as though he felt sure that ther was but one honest man in publi life, and he a senator from Soul Carolina with but one eyj an'* j: _ v 7' CORN GROWERS MEET " IN EVERY COUNTY TIHS MONTH TO ORGANIZE. ^ There Are Three Thousand Dollars in Prizes Offered to the Successful j Contestants. The Corn Growers' association y will be orRanized in every county in South Carolina on March 26th. ac cording to a letter addressed Monday by Ira \V. WilliamB of the United States farm demonstration to all of the agents in the State. This is a most important step. These associations are to be composed of farmers, merchants and business men and all who are interested in the intelligent growing of corn. The Boys' Corn Clubs in the State are under the supervision of Mr. Williams. Over three thousand boyB and girls have been enrolled as members of the clubs. The sum of $3,000 in prizes will be offered. These 1 prizes are in addition to the $5,000 ofTered for the corn exposition. All of the coru clubs and prize acre contests in the different counties will come under the supervision of the county association and the farm demonstration agents will be in immediate charge. The following is the letter calling 1 for the meeting: "I think it would be well for you to call a meeting of the citizens of 1 your county, as many as you think ' would take an active interest in the matter, and organize what would , be known as a Southern Corn Grow> ers association. This could be composed of farmers, merchants, bankers, and every man who is interested in growing more and better corn in South Carolina. If we grow corn we protect the price of cottop and make the farmer more independent. "Hy growing corn intelligently it makes for the farmer one of the most profitable farm crops. Should we increase our production as we should we could in a very short period of time stop the importation into our State of any corn whatever. This alone would save several mil( * ? null uuniWH ior me Slate. You can readily see that if we raise our corn we will have all of the fodder, hay j and peas needed. This would mean that we would he able to raise oiii1 mules, hogs, cows, chickens, and live stock in that there wolld be plenty of food for them. This would save many millions more dollars and the J farmer would soon come to his own ( in South Carolina. "So let us help the people to organize the local association in every county. These associations can hold hold fairs and corn prize contests and in less than five years sto4t the . importation of coin into the State and all other things will be added unto us." _ I WANTS A Mi II Kit MONKY. Bride Takes Her lltihhy to Court for Keeping Thirty Cents. ' "When 1 married Sam," said Mrs. Fanny Bookbinder in a New York police court, "he promised to pro vide for me and Saturday night his i pay envelope was 15 0 cents short." Mrs. Bookbinder is a bride of eight ' days. Although she has a personal bank account of $1,000, which she refuses to share with Sam, she liaul1 ed him into court on representations that he had treated her cruelly. 1 "Sam make $20 a week," she conr tinned, "and 1 want every cent of it. if he needs anything I'll get it for , him. 1 know what's due a wife and rlint'o ?..???. i i? ? ?-?? i ...... .. ...... i inuugiii. mill nere. "Suppose your husband wants a ci. gar?" suggested the magistrate. "1*11 buy it for him," repeated Mrs. Bookbinder firmly. . The magistrate laughed outright. _ "Then go home and make up your mind," he said, "to do as your husband tells you and take what he 'r gives you. And don't you come hefore me again with such rediculous charges. Case dismissed." The pair left court, arm in arm, . and there was no sign of a cloud to dim their honeymoon. * I North Carolina Pensions. I State Auditor Dixon of North Carr olina, says that last year 1,200 pensioners died, yet there is an increase r of about a thousand in the total t number, this being because the last i legislature increased the number of . widows who could receive pensions j pitchfork in his hand. Hut Tillman got bravely over that. > As he came to know the senate he ! respected it. Blunt to vulgarity, he t was honest to the core, aud the sen1 ate came to respect him, and sonators to love him. Perhaps had he t been a great intellect and a thorP oughiy cultured scholar he would . have made for himself a smaller s place. Certainly he would not have n been the picturesque figure he bey came. t Not In breadth of intellect, n it in q learning, not in eloquence, but in _ resistless force of character, B?n ^ Tillman Is the greatest man South c Carolina ever produced, and one of j; the most extraordinary men our a country has produced. FREE AT LAST i Ye man Pardoned Who Has Been ia Prison For Fifteen Years \ RESUME OF THE CASE Pannle Carson is Her Name and She Was Convicted of Complicity in Helping Two Men, Who Are Now Serving Terms in i*rlson, Minder Her Husband. Gov. Ansel has pardoned Mrs. Fanlie Carson, who. with two men olanned the death of her own husoand over fifteen years ago, and she tias been In the penitentiary ever dnce. She may go back to that home now, where still lingers the memory of a dark night when J. O. Larson lay asleep in his bed and was murdered bj Ed Green and John Page, while the wife stealthily left the home, and abandoned here husband to hiB cruel fate. A humble woman now is Fannie Carson. Out at the penitentiary they say that she has repented of her sins. Conducting a Bible class among her fellow prisoners, it is prolvable that she has seen the error of her way and it truly sorry for what she has done. Pity and the opinion that she has suffered much are the moving powers in the securing of a pardon for this woman. Frail of body, a physical vr>rk according to the written statement of physicians, Fannie Carson is not a fit person, in the opinion of those who considered her case, to serve out her days in the State pruon. CIovs. McSweemv and Hey,vat>1 refused to pardon the woman that now goes free. Mrs. Carson will leave in the pen ttentiary serving life sentences John Page and Ed Green, the two men with whom she conspired to murder here husband. It was by thj con imoiuii uii mi- niunii ui ruuiue Marion th.it it was possible to couvlet hese two men who are now serving ife sentences in the prison. The planning of that horrible murder was old by Fannie Larson o'.i tl.e witness stand, and she also told of the acual killing. On two occasions, before the two nen took the life of her husbaud, ihe and they had discussed the plan ind on the second occasion poison vas suggested. The first time that1 Page and Green came to the house o kill Carson, the wife Informed the nen that her husband was not sound isleep. This saved his life that ime. The next time, when strychnine vaB suggested. Mrs. Carson said she 'did not have the heart to poison ny husband." thus failed the second [dot to kill her husband. Then came :he third and successful plot. Ed Green and Page came around to the Carson home. Whit to do with the little baby was the first matter discussed. The men who were about to become murderers did not wish to wake the baby, and it was agreed that Mrs. Carson xvould takv the child out into the yard. With no mention of the killing itself. but in words that carried conviction with more force than if there had been another eye-witness, the two men who killed Carson, the wife told of the happenings of the next few minutes. After describing the passage of Ed Gre n and John Page through the dining room, one with an axe in his hand, Mrs. Carson said, "well, I went out and went to the well, but I did not stay there nit a few minutes 1 went around to the front yard and stayed there until they came out. When they came out John stooped in the kitchen and Ed started towards mo, and I motioned my hand to him not to come to me, that the babe was awake, and he never came, and they went and I went then to Mr. Jackson's." And in those few minutes her husband had been murdered as lie lay asleep. Some of those in Spartanburg County, who recall the killing of Carson, say that Ed. Green exerted a hypnotic influence over Mrs. Carson. Green had been received into the Carson home and had very probably planted himself in the affections of Mis. Carson. When her husband came home drunk and abused her. Green would take up for the wife. This attachment must have become closer and closer, judging from the matters hinted at in the papers tiled in this case. Worn out, perhaps, by the drunken debauches of her husband and day by day becoming more and more under th>> control of Green, Mrs. i arson readily lent herself to the scheme to rid her home of the husband. Ity securing the aid of Pag", this was found easy to do by Green. In a review of the case by the pardon board. Green is called the instigator of the plot and the one who used the other two to carry out the plan. It was Green who brought Carson strong drink from his farm across tho way, it was Green who saw the need of getting Carson out of the way. One of that trio goes free. Ed. Green was found guilty of murd'-r and sentenced to be hanged. His . . A WHITE FIEND ATTACKS A YOUNG WOMAN AT NIGHT IN HER HOME. Her Brother Hears Her Screams, and Went to Her Assistance, Hut the Fiend Escaped. Miss Louise Willis, of Walden. Ga., was savagely attacked by an unknown man in a room at the home of her brother, Mr. Emmett Willie, in a fashionable residence section of Macon, Ga.. Thursday nicht. The man was frightened away by the approach of the young iady's brother, who, hearing her screams, rushed to her assistance, and the young lady was thrown violently from her bed to the floor, a handkerchief being tied tightly about her mouth. The intention of th?V intruder waB criminal assault. The man made hiB escape through^ a window and made his escape by he means of lightning rod. The police department are making a determined search and from the description given by the young lady, it is believed her assailant will be captured within a few hours. The citizens of that section of the city were quickly aroused and they are aiding in the search. At midnight tne police department, had thrown out a dragnet citizens, had thr<own out a dragnet which, it is believed, will result in the arrest of Miss Willis' assailant A light burning in the room occupied by the young woman aided her in getting a good description of the man. Ho is described as being young and well dressed. The Willises are prominent in social circles in Macon, and at Walden and the attempted assault has created a decided sensation. In one of the most fashionable residence sections of the city another criminal assault was made the same night upon Mrs. J. C. llanberry, a young matron, who with her husband, bohrds at the home of Dr. William Cleveland, on Washington avenue. Mrs. llanberry was alone tin a room in the rear of the house when her assailant, a young white man, suddenly jerked open a window blind and attacked the woman. Exexcising unusual presence of mind, Mrs. Hanberry succeeded in freeing herself from the grasp of her assailant. Several occupants of the house were attracted by the woman's screams and hurried to her assistance, only to see the departing form of the intruder as he beat a hasty exit through the window he entered HKUTE ATTACKS CHILD. The Fiend Was Pursued by a Posse Hut He (Jot Away. An unknown negro man made a desperate attempt to criminally assault the 4-year-old daughter of \V. C. Hearn, a prominent citizen of Belleville, Ga., Thursday afternoon. The negro was frustrated in his desperate attack by a man named lienton. who drove him away and rescued the fainting and dangerously injured child. A large posse of enraged citizens was immediately formed, and it is thought that if the negro is caught he will be lynched. Bloodhounds traced the negro to a swamp near Pembroke. He later escaped from, the swamp and made his way toward Daisy. There he was sighted and (\ ...v.l > - " ' mm mum iij a citizen. it is believed the man was wounded, but he managed to again escape. I>c?th of Dr. Sinkler. Dr. Wharton Sinkler, the noted physician and specialist on nervous diseases, died in Philadelphia, Pa., on Wednesday. He was a brother of Hon. Charles St. George Sinkler of Berkeley, who up to 1890 was State senator from that county. He was 62 years of age. M akes Good Showing The second report on the North Carolina State high schools shows that at the end of the last school year 160 were in operation, having f?,282 students. At present only nine counties have no rural high schools. co-defendants, Fannie Carson and John L. Page, were found builty, but recommended vo the mercy of the Court, and were thereupon sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Stat'* Penitentiary. The defendant. Green, appealed and was granted a new trial. At the second trial he was j iwuiiii Kuuiy 01 murner, wit n recommendation to mercy, and was thereupon sentenced to life imprisonment in the Penitentiary. The case was first tried before the late Judge F.arle, who shortly after died before the first petition was filed in behalf of the prisoner. O. L. Shumpert was at that time solicitor of that circuit and prosecuted the case. A petition in behalf of this prisoner was presented in 1902 to M. R. McSweeney, then (Governor. This petition was refused. Another petition was presented in her behalf to D. C. Heyward, then (Governor in 1903. Again the petition, although the solicitor recommended , the pardon, was refused. C 'N ARE A BAD LOT ery One of President Taft's Cabinet Bat One Under a Charge THERE MAY BE CHANGES The Cabinet Members Say that They Are Not Raffled, as Public Offl- i rials Must KvimmI OniMisition h?t the Republican I/eaders Fear the 1 Effect of the t"hnrgvs. The ending of the first year of j President Taft's administration develops the peculiarly unfortunate situation of having every member of his official family under charges from the opposition with the exception of Secretary Nagle of the department of commerce and labor. Secretary of the Interior Ballinger is now being investigated by a joint committee of the senate and house?an inquiry that has been and will to the end continue to be replete with sensational charges of misconduct and incompetency, including not only the secretary but Gifford Pinchot, the former chief forester, and other officials of the interior office. Secretary of War Dickinson is now explaining to a senate committee his side of the issue, growing out of the charge that he has given a monopoly to the Pacific Mail Steamship company in the carrying trade between Panama and ports on the Pacific coast. The original arrangement gave the steamship company TO per cent of the rate, when they shipped through freight to the Atlantic coast by the Panama railroad it also gave the company the privilege of buying coal at Panama at cost. The protest against this privilege has recently prompted the secretary to promise similar favors to a i?rupos"(i competing line lo tne Pacific Mail. Postmaster General Hitchcock has heen charged by members of congress with using his office simply for politicul ends, the efficiency of the ^ postal service having deteriorated in consequence. Secretary of the Treasury Mac- j Veagh has been attacked for promotiug the Chicago packers' proposition j to have the 10-cent per pound tax ( on cotoned olemargarine reduced to ^ a fraction of a cent. Secretary of the Navy Meyer is in trouble over his naval personnel proposition. He has been accusel in service publications and by officers of the navy of attempting to build ] up the power of the social set in the naval establishment to the detriment of the best interests of the navy. Secretary of State Knox, as a re stilt of his endeavors to force upon China and the interested powers the right of New York capitalists to build certain railroads in the Orient, ' has been charged with using the influence of his office and his department to promote the financial business of J. P. Morgan and his asso elates. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is being attacked for his defense of the use of henzoate of soda as a food preservative. He has also become involved in the Hallinger-Pinehot controversy, having heen called as a witness before the investigating committee. Attorney General Wiskersham has heen bitterly assailed by the Kepub lican progressives. They charge that his ruilroad rate hill, which proposes amendments to the present in terstaV commerce law, will undo all the good accomplished l?y former President Roosevelt in curbing the railroads. They also charge that the attorney general has used his morvl influence to prevent possibl prose<a tion of the big men in the sugar trust as a climax to the sugar trust frauds in New York. Anti-Mallinger Republicans are also claiming that the attorney general suppressed and presented facts in distorted condition to the president when the Ballinger-Plnchot csise was before him. The cabinet which was held together for a year is constantly the subject of rumored changes. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, Secrj tary Rallinger, and Postmaster General Hitchcock have all been reported as about to resign Those familiar with the conditions do not b lieve that any change is cont >r>pia?ed. The men affected by the u pon? emphatically deny thern. President Taft is carefully watching the situation and is loyally supporting each member. lie is i.ni * *i tiled by the changes, baring implicit confidence in the integrity of the men he has chosen to aid him in I making his administration a success Neither to eaiitiwo ma... - -? .. iiiv. ii \j*v -5 3iiuw :.M?h of worry, but Him ! *.-?pnlji!?..?n I- adcrs tro wo?\>ed over ill3 sitiatli n. Christian Science llrult-rs Failed. Oliver IT. Church, a leading business man of Springfield, Mass., died last week after a long and painful illness. He was attended by no physician as Christian Science healers declared he would get well. % ' / Vi&kUH PREDICTIONS "THE DUTCH PROPHET" TELJjS OF WEATHER To B? Export*.*? Easter Week and the Balance of the Yea.?Fruit Crop Will Suffer from Frost. Mr. W. P. Houseal, "the Dutch Prophet," says he has heard It Intimated in certain sections that a forecast is expected from him JuBt at this period of the year, when springtime is supposed to be ushered in and banish winter with her sombre trappings. The forecast had already been put into shape, and could have been given weeks ago, but it conies now at the time when the period of year affected by the predictions is soon to arrive. The vernal, or spring, equinox occurs on March 21st. It is usually accompanied with storms of more of less intensity. The central period . of the storm for 1910 is March 27th, which is Easter Sunday. The storm, however, need not necessarily occur on that date. This year the day most likely to be effected during the spring equinox is March 24th. Occurring on March 24th, the disturbance will be severe in the Mississippi valley, the storm moving northward from the gulf, with percipitation in the form of rain and changing into snow in the Alleghanies and eastward into the middle states with high wind's on the Atlantic. This period will be followed by clear and cclder weather, with East-r Sunday, in all probability, in the clear period. The danger of severe frosts will extend into April, and even in May the weather will be unseasonably cell. It will be at least six weeks from March 15 until the cool periods pass into summer heat. The peach crop will be damaged by frost to a consideraole extent, except in the Kidge Spring section of South Carolina and the sandy regions of Georgia. The red clay sections will suffer most from these spring frosts. These conditions will cause the summer of 1 it 10 to be similar in temperature of its predecessors of 1908 and 1909, when few excessively high records were recorded. A special forecast will soon be iiven concerning the periods of precipitation for the spring and summer md extending into the fall and including the state fair week. The farmers need have no fear that the rainfall in South Carolina will be Insufficient ??>'. 1UCJ SAI.E OF FKKTLIZKRH. Port jr-Eiglit Thousand Tons More Sold This Year. The farmers of tlie State, according to the number of tax tags sold, are using more fertilizer this year than in the past, says the Columbia State. The hooks in the State terasurer's oflice show that since the first of the year the smu of $ 1 f?4,4 G7.38 has been received for tags. This is over $12,000 more, than was received at this time last yer. The amount received to date last year was $142,147.37. The total amount r? ceived from the fertilizer tax tags last year was $202,74 1.31. This money goes to Clomson college. There is a tax of 25 cents on every ton of fertilizer sold in tho State. It was said Thursday that the fertilizer companies aik rushing all orders and the fact may account for the increased sale, hut it is believed that the growth of intensive farming is the real cause. According to the amount of tag tax money received. it shows that over G 0 0, * 0 0 tons of fort i libera i. .?- ... <-ii niihi in ino State since the tlrst day of the year. i>.\\<;kic or DKKKAT. ciiIIoiii Says Republicans Must Stop Their I tow. United States Senator Siielliy M. Culloni, repulilican. of Illinois, in a letter to 'he republican editors convened at Sprinvfl Id, 111., declared: "It seems strange to me. but the republican party .vith a magnificent record, is in danger of defeat unless we harmonize our differences and pr sent a solid front to the eno my in the coming campaign. If wo are victorious in the coming election. attacks by republicans on republicans must cease." Senator Cullom believes that the party success is In danger. | ~~ ( Safe Was Robbed. 1 A naval board of inuuirv is at work at the Charlestown navy yard near Boston investigating the theft of $3,500 from the paymaster's safe on board the United States gunboat Castine. The theft was discovered last Thursday but did not become generally known until Monday. I,o?s of Wife Is Worfli !jt5,(H)0. Frank Hale, of Toledo, Ohio, was awarded $5,000 last week in a damage suit against Frank C. Harrison, in which the latter was accused of eloping with his pretty wife. Hale sued for $25,000. *